With Friendship, with Love    

When Rav Avraham Shmulevitz ztz”l, the maggid shiur in Yeshivas Mir, was niftar last Wednesday, he left behind a generation of students around the world reeling at their loss. But as they saw him off on his journey to the Next World, they could reflect that the love he gave them would be with them forever

“Yehoshua! Kum tzurik!”

Bystanders might have wondered as the gray-bearded maggid shiur bolted out the doorway, running after a bochur who had just exited the building.

“Yehoshua! Kum tzurik! — Yehoshua, come back! I forgot to write something!”

Yehoshua stopped and handed the maggid shiur the sefer he held. The maggid shiur produced a pen, opened the sefer, wrote one word, then handed it back. He then leaned over and gave Yehoshua a kiss.

“Yetzt kehnst du geien — now you can go.”